Andrei N. Kuznetsov

• Doctor of Education
• Head of Department at Russian Academy of Education, Moscow, Russia

For the Russian Federation (henceforth Russia) and other CIS countries, second-language mastery for professional mobility is a sound investment for secondary, tertiary and continuing vocational education graduates. Similarly, we would also consider it to be useful for citizens of other countries who are experiencing the new phenomena of transitiona...

This paper aims to examine challenges that are inherent in multicultural student group work (MCSG) in higher education and the differences between students from different cultural backgrounds in how they perceive the importance of challenges in MCSG. For this purpose, a 19-item survey was completed by students (N = 141) of the 9-EC (European Credit...

The paper deals with professional competency formation potential of an academic subject which is recognized to be a vital issue in the context of re-vision of the content and technology of engineering education on Russia’s and international scale. The interdisciplinary approach is translated here as being escalated to a newer level, where the plann...

The appearance of AI can be compared to that of the Internet. However, AI has become the reality of the academic community, and educators face the challenge that learners can substitute their own knowledge with that of AI, but also learn how to apply this awareness properly. It is a well-known fact that AI works depending on the amount of informati...

In the context of the digitalization drive in academia, the interventions of AI, the emerging cyber threats to both learners and teachers, the competition of the teacher competency with AI ̶ the survival of HE depends on technical and didactic innovations. The competency potential (CP) of the elements of HE has been successfully researched and tria...

The chapter presents the results of a sociological study of the satisfaction of parents with their access to education in preschool institutions in Russia, and the focus is on priority territories and advanced special economic zones. The available educational environment – i.e., infrastructure and equipment of preschool institutions, their transpor...

Most of the Russia's territory – with its focal small living settlements - does not have sufficient educational infrastructure. Schools teach children living in the neighboring settlements where the construction and operation of schools do not prove reasonable. The authors focus on the challenges faced by the developing countries: the challenge is...

Modern educational programs at universities must comply with multi-level parameters and take into consideration the interests of various stakeholders. For the government, it is important that they would comply with the federal educational standards and implement the national education strategy. For employers, it is the quality of graduates, as well...

The Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation is growing the status of an international platform for the research into Cognitive Linguistics and Professional Linguodidactics (PLD). It reflected the outcomes of that research both in the community-signifi...

The authors address the currently vital issue of the cyber-risks arising on the grounds of such challenges as ‘COVID-19 phenomenon’, general digitalization of the national and international communities, change in the social and educational trends, etc. The digitalization of education proves to perform as a risk factor for the management of educatio...

In order to improve the quality of education in Russia, standards are regularly updated, competencies are refined, new technologies for measuring quality are being introduced, and the mechanisms for interaction with stakeholders in the educational process are being revised. This study analyses the satisfaction level of students, who are the key sta...

This chapter explores in-depth studies of teacher personality and its effect on pedagogical design in the framework of course design and course delivery. The research is based on quantitative and qualitative methods, including surveys, interviews, comparative analysis, and computational method. Three categories of stakeholders were embraced, studen...

The paper aims to explore the behavior of Russian school-age children who are faced with a new social and psychological phenomenon: threats associated with the digital environment. Our focus was on the ability (psychological as well as technical) of teenagers to stand against cyber threats. At the preliminary stage of the research we analysed both...

As an integral part of the Russian social and educational policies, the mission is to ensure both the availability and the accessibility of high-quality and up-to-date social educational infrastructure for schoolers with as little limitation as possible in terms of their place of residence, their social status, and the type of their living conditio...

Literature reviewing and university practice analysis prove that as marketers began to recognize and emphasize the importance of educational services, they consequently called for services to form a separate relevant part of a business’s marketing strategy; and educational businesses should be little exception in this context. Internationalization...

The program of monitoring sociological research of the level of satisfaction of various categories of the population with the existing educational infrastructure in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which are assigned to priority territories and territories of priority development, is presented in the article. The relevance of suc...

The study attempts to offer a model of quality assurance of university teachers for their professional portfolio. It grounds on the research which was conducted in NUST “MISiS” (Moscow, Russia) in 2017-2018. It was triggered by a list of competences stipulated in both in Russian National Educational and Professional Standards. Those competences wer...

In this exploratory study, we introduced an Interculturally-Enriched Collaboration Script (IECS) for working in culturally diverse groups within a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment and then assessed student online collaborative behaviour, learning performance, and experiences. The question was if and how these variables d...

The theory of teacher training for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) cannot provide practising educationalists with a water-tight answer to one of the most vital and crucial questions: how much time is required to educate a TVET professional? Unlike most other training fields, TVET teacher training is double-targeted, as two ma...

The qualifications and educational level of teachers and trainers are reflected in their professional activity. The training of Russian teachers of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is carried out in accordance with the various levels of professional activities: instructors with post-secondary training; professionals with highe...